Terminal Server Clustered or NLB?

[sport404]

Hey guys, right now my terminal servers are in a cluster. Can I NLB while they are in a cluster and is clustering even the way to go or should I just be using NLB and thats all?

Thanks!

 

[pagy]

You can only use either NLB or clustering not both at the same time on the same kit.
NLB is usually the best way to go for TS, but get a hardware load balancer for best performance IMHO.

Paul

MCSE 2003

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[sport404]

At the moment they are setup as a Cluster, but they don't seem to be handing clients to the least busiest server out of the 3 servers. Should it be able to do this, or is this what NLB does and I should just get rid of the cluster.

Thanks

 

[58sniper]

That's what NLB does. Clustering gives you failover support, as well as shared storage support.

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[sport404]

And last question, I am switching over to NLB and using a second nic. Can the NLB nics be on a different subnet and work fine with themselves?

Thanks

 

[sport404]

So is appears everything is setup but I just logged 6 people in and they are got put on the same server. Does it only switch to another one when some sort of limit is hit??

Thanks

 

[sport404]

Also I noticed that when that particular box goes down then the other two don't work. Is this how its supposed to work? Shouldn't NLB notice the dead link and just balance between the 2 remaining servers??

Thanks

 

[sport404]

I feel as though the Cluster didn't delete properly and is affecting NLB. When I go to cluster administration I still see the cluster name there but its not accessible. Is that normal to still have it there?

 

[KravChak]

I don't think your NLB is set up correctly. Use the Network Load Balance Manager to check if the NLB is set up. The servers should work in a round robin way.

You could also set up your switches to route the traffic to the NLB in a round robin.

 

[sport404]

i setup my servers with 2 nics. 192.168.100.xx and then i set nlb to use the second nic on each server. the weird part is that i can't ping those second nics between servers but i can ping them from any other machine besides the ones in the cluster. Not sure whats going on.